{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["61(6)"],"submitter":["Ishizaki Y"],"pubmed_abstract":["Although trichuriasis, a zoonotic disease, has recently become rare in Japan due to improved environmental hygiene, we herein report a 79-year-old man in whom a worm was incidentally found in the ascending colon during colonoscopy for positive fecal occult blood and was endoscopically removed. A genetic analysis identified the worm as Trichuris trichiura possessing mixed sequences from non-human primate and human origins. Despite controversy regarding Trichuris trichiura infection originating from Japanese macaques, according to some studies, it originates primarily from humans. This report suggests the efficacy of a genetic analysis for identifying infection sources."],"journal":["Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)"],"pagination":["821-825"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8987263"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Trichuris trichiura Incidentally Detected by Colonoscopy and Identified by a Genetic Analysis."],"pmcid":["PMC8987263"],"pubmed_authors":["Onizawa M","Ishizaki Y","Kawashima K","Ohira H","Hasegawa M","Gunji N","Hikichi T"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Trichuris trichiura Incidentally Detected by Colonoscopy and Identified by a Genetic Analysis.","description":"Although trichuriasis, a zoonotic disease, has recently become rare in Japan due to improved environmental hygiene, we herein report a 79-year-old man in whom a worm was incidentally found in the ascending colon during colonoscopy for positive fecal occult blood and was endoscopically removed. A genetic analysis identified the worm as Trichuris trichiura possessing mixed sequences from non-human primate and human origins. Despite controversy regarding Trichuris trichiura infection originating from Japanese macaques, according to some studies, it originates primarily from humans. This report suggests the efficacy of a genetic analysis for identifying infection sources.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Mar","modification":"2025-04-22T09:48:48.404Z","creation":"2025-04-05T23:16:10.778Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8987263","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34471029"],"doi":["10.2169/internalmedicine.8012-21"]}}